... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

... 13, Moscow, 119992 Russia 2 Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Arkhyz, Karachai-Cherkessian Republic, 369167 Russia Received May 18, 2009 Abstract--Using the method of two-dimensional spectroscopy, we have investigated the kinematics and distribution of the gas and stars at the center of the early-type spiral galaxy NGC 7177 with a mediumscale bar as well as the change in the mean age of the stellar population along the radius. ...

php /* * Backup script on server. ... Connects to the mySQL * database and creates a backup file of the whole database. ... Yes/No? ... It will void your warranty :-D! $ date = date ( mdy-hia ); $filename = $savepath/$dbname-$ date .sql ; if($use_gzip== yes ){ $ filename2 = $ file ; } else { $ filename2 = $savepath/$dbname-$ date .sql ; } if($send_email == yes ){ $fileatt_type = filetype($ filename2 ); $ fileatt_name = .$dbname. - .$ ... BR>"; $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" ." ...

... Twenty-Six Year Monitoring of Water Masers IAU Symposium 242, Alice Springs 1 Contents of the work A sample of H2O maser emission sources has been observed since 1980. ... Rudnitskij et al. ... Twenty-Six Year Monitoring of Water Masers IAU Symposium 242, Alice Springs 4 Maser in a protoplanetary disc (S255) Flux density, Jy S255: H2O line profile 5 February 2002 Radial velocity, LSR, km/s Rudnitskij et al. ... Twenty-Six Year Monitoring of Water Masers IAU Symposium 242, Alice Springs 12 ...

... Using the CFBDSIR wide field survey for brown dwarfs, we identified CFBDSIRJ214947.2-040308.9, a late T dwarf with atypically red J-Ks colour. ... SN 2009ip in NGC 7259 Electronic Telegram No. ... 7.09, [19.0; 2009 Aug. ... Accepted for publication in MNRAS Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) The jet opening angle theta_jet and the bulk Lorentz factor Gamma_0 are crucial parameters for the computation of the energetics of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). ...

Sp ecific features of differential motions in the DIMM V. Kornilov, B. Safonov May 28, 2010 1 Intro duction Differential image motion monitor DIMM widely used in studies of optical turbulence, is destined to measure the integrated effect of the Earth's atmosphere on the image quality. ... In the work of Martin, they are obtained by gradual spatial filtering 1 of the power spectrum of phase perturbations in the assumption of Kolmogorov's model of the optical turbulence (OT). ...

Atmospheric transparency in the optical and near IR range above the Shatdzhatmaz summit O.Voziakova (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Russia) Atmospheric extinction in the MASS spectral band Atmospheric transparency in near IR range Example of a good photometric night. ... Distribution of atmospheric extinction in MASS Median = 0.23 mag 1-st quartile = 0.20 3-d quartile = 0.27 mag Vertical green line represents theoretical Rayleigh extinction for Shatdzhatmaz (0.16 mag). ...

M87 Gas Disk and Optical Jet (STSci) . SEDS Messier Catalogue M87 Page (U. Arizona) . Black Hole and Jet in M87 (NASA/GSFC) . ... The large scale radio structure is shown in the 3CRR Atlas . Richard White's Virgo Cluster page has optical and X-ray images of the large-scale environment of M87 . ... HST Observes Distant Radio Galaxies (STScI) . HST Finds a Black Hole in NGC4261 (STScI) . HST finds a Bare Black Hole Pouring out Light in NGC6251 . ... Alan Bridle's Home Page . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...